Quotations from "The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside" - A Maverick of Electrical Science by Basil Mahon
"Oliver Heaviside, who lived from 1850 to 1925 < > founded much of the subject of electrical engineering as it is taught and practiced today: every textbook and every college course bears his stamp."
"I{Oliver Heaviside wrote} hold the view that it{that is, mathematics}is essentially an experimental science, like any other, and should be taught observationally, descriptively, and experimentally."
" ... someone had to bridge the gap between the world of the scholarly scientist and that of the practical-minded engineer."
"What gave Heaviside the power to bridge the great chasm was his unique approach to mathematics. To him, symbols and equations were not pale abstractions but components in a vivid picture of the physical world."
"The advance of electrical communications in the past hundred years is the greatest leap of knowledge in humankind's history. Radio, television, radar, cell phones, the Internet, satellite navigation: each has been turned from ambitious idea into everyday tool at incredible speed. With astounding skill and ingenuity, scientists and engineers have created hundreds of wonderful new devices and techniques ... < > On the face of it, we have left Heaviside way behind. But in one important sense it was Heaviside who made it all possible. By bridging what had been a great gulf between theory and practice, he brought advanced electrical science within reach of technologists."
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